• Bookstores and Libraries

    Debut Authors

    How to Plan a Literary Drive-In: Or, the Pandemic’s Safest IRL Book Launch

    By Rachelle Toarmino  June 29, 2021
    The Hub

    “We basically flipped it.” Take a look at the newly redesigned Truman Presidential Library.

    By Walker Caplan  June 28, 2021
    Bookstores

    The Change You Want to See: From Free Meals to Good Books, Doing the Work in Jersey

    By Ann Kjellberg  June 25, 2021
    The Hub

    On the destruction by fire of the greatest library in the world you’ve never heard of.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Is this the best book club ever?

    By Walker Caplan  June 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Amazon is destroying thousands of unsold books.

    By Walker Caplan  June 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Lessons of a self-published writer: independent bookstores are good, Amazon not so much.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Brontë enthusiasts have banded together to stop Sotheby’s from auctioning off rare manuscripts.

    By Walker Caplan  June 22, 2021
    Genre

    The Perks of Reading Across Genre as Both Bookseller and Writer

    By Marissa Levien  June 15, 2021
    Travel

    Get away from it all with a trip to this Japanese book hotel.

    By Walker Caplan  June 10, 2021
    Archives

    Private Lives, Public Faces: On What’s Revealed by Hannah Arendt’s Archives

    By Samantha Rose Hill  June 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Take a look at this bizarrely beautiful library inspired by the human brain.

    By Walker Caplan  June 7, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, June 7th to 11th

    By Rasheeda Saka  June 7, 2021
    The Hub

    Conservatives don’t want anti-Biden books. Should liberals be concerned?

    By Walker Caplan  June 4, 2021
    The Hub

    Has anyone seen this Bible-eating bookstore customer?

    By Walker Caplan  June 2, 2021
    Booksellers Recommend

    Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This June

    By Literary Hub  June 2, 2021
    The Hub

    Author royalties for the sale of used books? They’re going to try it in the UK.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 1, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, June 1st to June 5th

    By Rasheeda Saka  June 1, 2021
    The Hub

    Libraries are crowdfunding an open access collection of American prison newspapers.

    By Walker Caplan  May 28, 2021
    The Hub

    Have £1,200,000? Emily Brontë’s lost handwritten poems are up for auction.

    By Walker Caplan  May 27, 2021
    Publishing

    How Booksellers Were Complicit in the Resurgence of White Supremacy and the Rise of Donald Trump

    By Josh Cook  May 27, 2021
    Your Week in Virtual Book Events

    Your Week in Virtual Book Events, May 24th to May 28th

    By Rasheeda Saka  May 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Gaza’s largest bookstore has been destroyed.

    By Emily Temple  May 20, 2021
    The Hub

    John Cleese has no idea how many bookstores there are in America.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Here’s a running list of bookstores that have unionized.

    By Corinne Segal  May 18, 2021
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